Oedipus

The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3718-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

Drawing on more than seventy works that dispersed the Oedipus legend from Greece to Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Edmunds provides a foundation for discussion of the lasting appeal of this legend, for claims of its universality, and for its uses as a vehicle for personal and cultural expression.

The power of the Oedipus legend is apparent not only in its interpretations but even more so in its variations. As Edmunds writes, "Translations, adaptations, and performances still come forth in a never-ending stream. Again and again, playwrights have tried their hand at new shapings of the Sophoclean Oedipuses and often a country's Oedipus forms a whole chapter in the history of its literature." Drawing on more than seventy works that dispersed the Oedipus legend from Greece to Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Edmunds provides a foundation for discussion of the lasting appeal of this legend, for claims of its universality, and for its uses as a vehicle for personal and cultural expression.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edmunds, Lowell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Sigla
List of Analogues
Abbreviations

Introduction
Ancient Sources for the Oedipus Legend
Texts of the Analogues
Medieval Europe and the Near East
Modern Europe (Except Slavic)
Slavic
Near East, Asia, Africa, Western Hemisphere

Bibliographies
Index of Sources
Index of Names and Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Edmunds, Lowell
Lowell Edmunds is an emeritus professor of classics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His books include Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry and Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, both published by Johns Hopkins.

Francis Mark Mondimore, M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a member of the clinical faculty of the University of North Carolina-ChapelHill. He is author of Depression, The Mood Disease, also available from Johns Hopkins.